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Toronto's Jews Think Big

Yiddish Limericks

Toronto

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he UJA Federation of Greater Toronto is trying to keep
pace with the city's growing Jewish population through
a massive building and revitalization project.
The most recent is a $150-million Jewish campus in the
York region, the area just north of the city that is home to a
fast-growing Jewish community of about 50,000. The campus
will feature a variety of community and educational services,
and house federation agencies in storefront-type offices. The
expected completion date is 2010.
The proposed facility is one of three Jewish campuses high-
lighted in what the UJA Federation is calling Jewish Toronto
Tomorrow. The initiative also calls for a $7.5-million revitaliza-
tion of the downtown Bloor JCC as well as of the Bathurst
Jewish Centre.
"Jewish Toronto Tomorrow involves approximately $250
million worth of new-infrastructure development, based on
$1.1-billion in fundraising over the next 10 years," said UJA
Fedeiation spokesman Howard English.
The Jewish community of Greater Toronto — which
includes the York region — has practically doubled in size over
the last quarter century to become the predominant Jewish
community of Canada and one of the 10 largest in North
America.
Estimates of the city's Jewish population range from
180,000 to 200,000.
Toronto received an influx of Holocaust survivors after
World War II, then waves of Jewish refugees and immigrants
from Hungary, Morocco, Israel, South Africa, Russia and other
countries in the post-war era. Also, many thousands of Jews
from Montreal have resettled in Toronto after fleeing Quebec's
uncertain political climate. There are about 380,000 Jews in
Canada, roughly half of whom live in Greater Toronto.
Jews in Toronto are, on average, a generation closer to their
European roots than their counterparts in the United States,
said Stephen Speisman, director of the Ontario Jewish Archives
and author of The Jews of Toronto: A History to 1937.
"They are also much more affiliated to Jewish organizations
— the proportion is much higher here than in major U.S.
cities," he said. "The per capita contributions to Jewish chari-
ties is higher, and the intermarriage rate, while still trouble-
some, tends to be lower."

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"The Israeli soldiers were just very happy to be alive.
Lebanon is a place that you never know if you'll come
back from."

— Jennifer Tisdale of West Bloomfield, 22, speaking at
Temple Israel last week after a year of study in Israel. A
rabbinical student in the Reform movement, she begins a
monthly internship in September at Temple Beth El, a
124-family congregation, in Brownsville, Texas.

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"We will choose another symbol. But if demonstrators
put a yellow star on their dogs, I can do nothing
about it."

— Daniel Reynes, who had tried to organize German
owners of pit bulls, which are banned in Berlin, to put
yellow Stars of David on their pets to protest what they
call "racism."

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